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Next in succession to this aboriginal race, subsisting by fishing and hunt* 
ing, comes another with a cranium of a more lengthctK-d oval form and pr^ 
niinent and narrow occiput. I think this second race to have been of Gothic 
extraction, to have first commenced the division of the land for agricultural 
purposes, and consequently to have had bloody strife with tlie former iaha* 
bitants, who, as already mentioned, lived as fishermen and hunters, 'rbhis 
a natural conclusion, and has been the case wherever an agricultural people 
has met with another living by fishing and hunting. It is the case in .^lue* 
rica, and has been so in ancient times in Europi*. A strong and decided 
proof of the bloody struggle which had taken place betw een these different 
people is furnished by an investigation of the skull 1 here have the honour 
of showing. This skull is perforated by a lanco, the point of which is formed 
by one of the points of the elk horn. This weupoji of bone has no doubt be¬ 
longed to a people very uncivilized, and probably tlie first inhabitants of the 
country, but the skull pierced by the lance U one different in form from that 
of tlie first race that pcopleii Scandinavia; it is on the contrarj’ ofak’iigtb* 
enc:d oval form, called liy Hetzius the Dolico*cephalic. This cranium was 
with the other bones of the skeleton found in South Scania, together with 
thirty to forty skeletons of the same race; and among them were miind stone 
weapons by which tliey probably had been killed. Around the arms of one 
were seen spiral rings of bronze, w liicli Bcems to prove that they had {ilrcodv 
been in contact with other people more advanced in civilization than them¬ 
selves, and from them received articles of bronze. Different iniplementtof 
bone or stone for digging hi the ground were likewise found, and are here 
placed before the Section for investigation. 
The third race which has inhaliitcd Scandinavia conic possibly from ihu 
north and east, and introduced bronze into the country; the form of tbe 
f] '^*'y from that of the two former races. It is longer than 
iLrZ Ihan the second, and withal prominent at the sides, 
1 consider this race to have been of Celtic origin. Ju my hand 11.nve nsbull 
miurfiiT.'^'’ "ch iinisemn of Dr. Ituckland, found iu a tin- 
S no form f ^ Another cranium of exactly the 
above^the ‘ Holmslehii at a height of mure than 50 feet 
cmnium of ^ f Hes before me. In the same place was found a 
skull of liiie f ,rm ^ ^1 second race. I have another 
lllaJta. hor h S, catacomb in the island of 
paper.) Thu fmirrt ^pon tho subject I must refer to my geological 
has inhabited Scandinavia flhJtrue Swea 
which,* rlurine the ifmo o? i-r'" Norrmna family, from 
Iceland. Tlfis race it is * Haartager, a branch extended it-self W 
JHins ami instruments of^ ir^n"''*■1' >*■ '"*« 
known iu the coimtrv such may possibly have beca 
tnajority of the present inhni fourth race are descended tbe 
niences, strictly speakino- on,* country, and w'ith this race com- 
this race in Scandinavia^i’s 7 ^^ Period of the first settlement of 
I think may be placed some iZe in S ^xtrefntu^”^ 
